Fast Radio Burstとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fast radio burst (複数形 fast radio bursts)

1. (astronomy) A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
   • 2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer (→ISBN), page 571:

     This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity.

2. (by extension) An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
3. (by extension) An object from which the phenomenon occurs.

   Hyponym: blitzar

派生語

• FRB (abbreviation)
• fast radio burster

等位語

• GRB (“gamma ray burst”)

Further reading

• fast radio burst on Wikipedia.